The Works of Sir William Temple Bart. New Edition. Complete in 4 Vols. by Temple, William - 1770

A Brown & Sons Limited, Hull, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Dark red covers with black and gilt lettering and simple decoration are lightly rubbed at the edges, ex-library copy with usual pasted labels, stamps and ticket wallet. Paper is split over webbing at internal hinges with some looseness in the front joint but covers are firmly attached, internal binding is sound, pages are clean but a little darkened. Many black and white illustrations. Articles include: January 1984: The Plate and Insignia of the Hull Corporation by Alderman Kelburne King; Some Scraps of Holderness Folk-Lore by Wm Henry Jones; The Influence of the Northmen on our Language by John Nicholson; Star Showers and Red Sub-Sets by A N Somerscales; William Wilberforce, a Biographical Sketch & Catalogue of Exhibition; The Meterology of Hull by William Lawton; The Johnson Mss Correspondence; The Old Walls of Hull; Notes Queries reviews etc. April 1884: Cottingham Castle and Its Lords by C… Read More

Printed by B Dewhirst for Robinson, Son, and Houldsworth, Leeds and John Hurst, Wakefield, Leeds; Wakefield, 1816. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Volume I. Loidis and Elmete: Or, An Attempt to Describe Districts Described in those Words by Bede; and Supposed to Embrace the Lower Portions of Aredale and Wharfdale Together with the Entire Vale of Calder in the County of York. Volume II. Ducatus Leodiensis: or, The Topography of the Ancient and Populous Town and Parish of Leedes and Parts Adjacent, in the West-Riding of the County of York. With the Pedigrees of Many of the Nobility and Gentry, and Other Matters Relating to Those Parts; Extracted from Records, Original Evidences, and Manuscripts. To Which is Added, at the Request of Several Learned Persons, A Catalogue of His Museum, with the Curiosities Natural and Artificial, and the Antiquities, Particularly the Roman, British, Saxon, Danish, Norman and Scotch Coins, With Modern Medals. Also A Catalogue of… Read More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975, first printing. 8vo., x+384pp., illustrated with b/w plates. Copy of one page signed letter from Masterman (May, 1975), on his letterhead, stapled to flyleaf. Masterman talks of the the recent death of diplomat William Walton Butterworth, and that he is now 84. Some foxing along edges, else very good in very good dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry, London, 1768. An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli. Illustrated with a New and Accurate Map of Corsica. First edition, first issue, bound with scarce half title, last leaf blank, Z3 in uncorrected state, all misprints present, map in its first form without scale or degrees. Published Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry, London, 1768. 8vo., 5 1/2" x 8 5/16", xxi, [1, blank], [1, table of contents], [1, blank], 382 pp., [1, blank]. Large folding engraved frontispiece map of Corsica by Thomas Phinn inserted between half title and title page. Engraved coat-of-arms on title-page. Table of Contents (b2) follows the Preface (a3-b1); Z3 in original state with "Maraina" typo; D2 in first state, with the words "John Home" incorrectly placed following the first quotation on p. 51; E2 with… Read More

London: A Strahan and T. Cadell in the Strand and W. Creech at Edinburgh, 1794. Sixth Edition. Complete in 2 volumes. Full leather. Complete run of the short lived literary publication, containing a total of one-hundred and one articles and essays, including "an Extraordinary Account of ROBERT BURNS, the Ayrshire Ploughman; with extracts from his Poems". Published London: A Strahan and T. Cadell in the Strand and W. Creech at Edinburgh, 1794. 8vo., 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", full speckled calf with gilt tooling, leather spine labels. xxii+448; vi+443; 1pp. publisher's ads. Spine of volume 1 chipped, outer hinge splitting, wear at the tips, covers tight, bindings strong, pages clean, bright white. Near fine internally. . Hard. Very Good. 8vo.

A Brown & Sons Limited, Hull, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Dark red covers with black and gilt lettering and simple decoration are lightly rubbed at the edges, ex-library copy with usual pasted labels, stamps and ticket wallet. Paper is split over webbing at internal hinges with some looseness in the front joint but covers are firmly attached, internal binding is sound, pages are clean but a little darkened. Many black and white illustrations. Articles include: January 1984: The Plate and Insignia of the Hull Corporation by Alderman Kelburne King; Some Scraps of Holderness Folk-Lore by Wm Henry Jones; The Influence of the Northmen on our Language by John Nicholson; Star Showers and Red Sub-Sets by A N Somerscales; William Wilberforce, a Biographical Sketch & Catalogue of Exhibition; The Meterology of Hull by William Lawton; The Johnson Mss Correspondence; The Old Walls of Hull; Notes Queries reviews etc. April 1884: Cottingham Castle and Its Lords by C… Read More

Printed by B Dewhirst for Robinson, Son, and Houldsworth, Leeds and John Hurst, Wakefield, Leeds; Wakefield, 1816. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Volume I. Loidis and Elmete: Or, An Attempt to Describe Districts Described in those Words by Bede; and Supposed to Embrace the Lower Portions of Aredale and Wharfdale Together with the Entire Vale of Calder in the County of York. Volume II. Ducatus Leodiensis: or, The Topography of the Ancient and Populous Town and Parish of Leedes and Parts Adjacent, in the West-Riding of the County of York. With the Pedigrees of Many of the Nobility and Gentry, and Other Matters Relating to Those Parts; Extracted from Records, Original Evidences, and Manuscripts. To Which is Added, at the Request of Several Learned Persons, A Catalogue of His Museum, with the Curiosities Natural and Artificial, and the Antiquities, Particularly the Roman, British, Saxon, Danish, Norman and Scotch Coins, With Modern Medals. Also A Catalogue of… Read More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975, first printing. 8vo., x+384pp., illustrated with b/w plates. Copy of one page signed letter from Masterman (May, 1975), on his letterhead, stapled to flyleaf. Masterman talks of the the recent death of diplomat William Walton Butterworth, and that he is now 84. Some foxing along edges, else very good in very good dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry, London, 1768. An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli. Illustrated with a New and Accurate Map of Corsica. First edition, first issue, bound with scarce half title, last leaf blank, Z3 in uncorrected state, all misprints present, map in its first form without scale or degrees. Published Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry, London, 1768. 8vo., 5 1/2" x 8 5/16", xxi, [1, blank], [1, table of contents], [1, blank], 382 pp., [1, blank]. Large folding engraved frontispiece map of Corsica by Thomas Phinn inserted between half title and title page. Engraved coat-of-arms on title-page. Table of Contents (b2) follows the Preface (a3-b1); Z3 in original state with "Maraina" typo; D2 in first state, with the words "John Home" incorrectly placed following the first quotation on p. 51; E2 with… Read More

London: A Strahan and T. Cadell in the Strand and W. Creech at Edinburgh, 1794. Sixth Edition. Complete in 2 volumes. Full leather. Complete run of the short lived literary publication, containing a total of one-hundred and one articles and essays, including "an Extraordinary Account of ROBERT BURNS, the Ayrshire Ploughman; with extracts from his Poems". Published London: A Strahan and T. Cadell in the Strand and W. Creech at Edinburgh, 1794. 8vo., 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", full speckled calf with gilt tooling, leather spine labels. xxii+448; vi+443; 1pp. publisher's ads. Spine of volume 1 chipped, outer hinge splitting, wear at the tips, covers tight, bindings strong, pages clean, bright white. Near fine internally. . Hard. Very Good. 8vo.